by Alden Nowlan
Not every wino is a Holy Man.
Oh, but some of them are.
I love those who’ve learned
to sit comfortably
for long periods with their hams
pressed against their calves,
outdoors,
with a wall for a back-rest,
contentedly saying nothing.
These move about only when
necessary,
on foot, and almost always
in pairs.
I think of them as oblates.
Christ’s blood is in their veins
or they thirst for it.
They have looked into the eyes
of God,
unprotected by smoked glass.
A few random poems:
- Man In Black by Sylvia Plath
- O Beauty, Passing Beauty! poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Town Planning Agencies by Tilottama Chatterjee
- Robert Burns: The Lament: Occasioned by the unfortunate issue of a Friend’s Amour.
- There Pass the Careless People poem – A. E. Housman
- Inscription For The Tomb Of Mr. Hamilton by William Cowper
- Chorus of Athenians poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Rosemary by Marianne Moore
- Le Monocle de Mon Oncle by Wallace Stevens
- Will Remain Unseen by Vasil Slavov
- The Merchant by Rabindranath Tagore
- Валерий Брюсов – Игорю Северянину (Строя струны лиры клирной)
- Epitaph On Mrs. M. Higgins, Of Weston by William Cowper
- Алишер Навои – Кипарис подобен розе увлажненной
- Elegy to the Old Man Hokuju by Yosa Buson
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- The Defiance Of Eteocles
- The Decree Of Athena
- The Complaint Of Prometheus
- The Beacon Fires
- The Battle Of Salamis
- Song Of The Furies
- Prometheus Amid Hurricane And Earthquake
- Prayer Artemis
- Lament Two Brothers Slain Each Other039s Hand
- Lament For The Two Brothers Slain By Each Others Hand
- Fragment From Aeschylus
- Complaint Prometheus
- Battle Salamis
- A Prayer For Artemis
- On Twitter
- Victory
- Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- Two Songs
- Stepping Backward
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law By Adrienne Rich
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
